The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-26

dorsing Fire Marshal Jas. II. Smith for County
| Commissioner was passed.
Work on the superstructure of the Towson
National Bank building was commenced on We'd
nesday and it will be pushed as rapidly as posi-
BILE. 1t will be of limestone FROM the Hampton
quarries and will be very substantial looking
building when completed.
Rev. W. III. Ii. Powers, rector OF Trinity 2.
e. Church, is getting up reading club for men
and boys, and a permanent organization will be
effected this Saturday evening" in the chapel. 1t
is proposed to rent room and supply it with
books, periodicals, papers, &c.
We hope in very short time to be able to
announce heavy transaction in property near
Towsontown, and if it does take place it will in
fuse new life into the town and its surroundings,
besides being the cause of rapid growth in our
population in the next five years.
Mr.. VIM. B. Sands, OF Baltimore county,
has been elected treasurer of the Gardeners Club,
organization just formed of the gardeners, florists
and nurserymen doing business in the vicinity Of
Baltimore for the purpose ofpromoting the social
and business interests of its members.
No matter how bad anything may be, a
philosopher can always find some compromising
circumstance. The general cussedness OF the
weather has been a subject of common remark, but
it has done one good thing-the Spring poets
have not had a chance to get their work in.
At the annual meeting of the Dug Hill
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Carroll coun-
ty, held few days ago, proposition was receiv-
ed from the Mutual Insurance Company of Tren-
ton, Baltimore county, suggesting consolidation
of the two companies, but the offer was rejected.
Mr.. Hamlet Steever, who had been proprie-
tor of Cold Spring Hotel, on the York road, for
seven years. died on Monday last, in tho 59th year
of his age. He formerly kept hotel on the Phil
adelphia road and was brother OF Mr.. Dan
Steever, the we'll known trainer and track driver.
The Washington Conference of the Colored
M. E. Church, held this year at Abingdon, Va,
adjourned on Tuesday. The following appoint
ments were made for Baltimore county: Govans-
town and Luthervie, W. G. Cooper; Gunpow
der, R. H. Adams; Hereford, J. Henry; Reisters
town, L. j. Evans.
The wife of Rev. J. F. Goucher, pastor of
the First M. E. Church, in the Belt, was very i'll
for some days, but her many friends in the county
will be glad learn that she is now on the road to
recovery. Mrs. Goucher is a daughter of the late
Dr. Fisher, of Pikesville and she is most charit-
able christian woman.
An empty coal oil still in the works of the
Baltimore United Oil Company, at Canton, ex-
poded on Saturday last, killing four men who
were engaged in repairing it. Their names were
Jacob Hoffman, Edward Rollison, Christian Kurtz
and Peter O'Conner. Tho two latter lived in the
county and leave families.
In a half-day's shooting from point on
the Gunpowder few days ago, two sportsmen
killed two hundred red head ducks. About noon,
when the ducks were flying lively, they were OBJ
liged to stop shooting. having exhausted their
ammunition. The ducks were killed for market
and were sold at Havre- de. Grace
The father of the late DR.. David S. Git
tings, who died last week at the age Of 80 years,
| lived to about the same age and his grandfather
died at the age of 100. 1t is said of the Dr. g
| father that he rode to Baltimore and return on
| horseback few days before he reached his Goth
| year. They were long Lived family.
The present outlook for improvement in
Towsontown is better than it has been for fifteen
years and the greater part of this very satisfactory
state of affairs be attributed to the movement
| to secure an abundant and pure supply of water.
Once the water supply is an assured fact other de-
| sirable improvements are certain to follow.
Mr.. William Gilmor, one Of the receivers of
the Maryland Central r. r Company, was before
the County Commissioners this week, asking a
reduction on the assessment of the company's road
bed, which is said to be higher than upon any
other road traversing the county. The Board de-
clined to make any change in the assessment.
The Baltimore and Catonsville horse rail
way has reduced the fare between those two points
to 10 cents during the week and Is cents on Sun
day. Corresponding reductions have been made
to intermediate points. The distance between
Baltimore and Gainesville is seven miles, the same
as to Towson.own. No more tickets are used on
the road.
The Belair Democrat says: "At on expense
of less than S25 the Commissioners have lately put
in the almshouse bath tub. When a tramp ap-
plies for lodging there the first thing he is requir-
ed to do is to take bath. One went in last week,
and, after trying the temperature of the water,
hastily left, declaring that he would not stay at
house where he was obliged to wash"
Mrs. Shriver, wife of 7. Herbert Shriver,
ESQ.,, Deputy Collector of the Port of Baltimore,
died at her residence, st. Paul street extended, in
the Belt, on Monday last. She was daughter
of Mr.. Robt Lawson and was most estmable
woman. Mrs. Shriver leaves four children, the
youngest being twins but a few weeks old. Her
remains were inferred at Westminster.
Among the graduates at the annual COM
mencement of the University of Maryland School
of Medicine, held on Tuesday last, was Mr.. Wm
Corse, oldest son of Robert S. Corse, Esq, of the
4th district Mr.. Corse passed splendid exam
inaton and graduated with high honors His
uncle, DIR. George F. Corse, is prominent and
successful physician in the 18th district.
Mr.. George Lewis Trogler died at his resi-
dence, on the York road, a short distance above
Govanstown, on Monday last, in the Goth year of
his age. Although enjoying good health Mr..
Trogler had not been mile from home in many
years and it is said he never was on railroad of
any kind in his life. He was the father-in- law
of Mr.. James c. Harrison, well known carpen-
ter and builder.
The first of course of three free lectures,
under the auspices of the Young Mems Guild,
was delivered in the First M. e. Church, in the
Belt, on Friday evening of last week, by Prof.
Chickering of Washington. His subject was
"What I saw in Alaska" and the lecture was
beautifully illustrated and highly entertaining
The next lecture will be by Bishop Warren, April
| 18th. Subject-"The Forces of Sunbeam"
Last weeks UNION contained the advertise
ment of Baltimore shoe house, with the picture
| of q shoe in it. Before noon on Saturday gen.
tleman from the county appeared at the store with
a copy of the advertisement and said he wanted q
| pair of shoes exactly like the cut. He go. them
and went off happy. 1t is needless to add that
the dealer has high opinion of The UNION as an
| advertising medium.
Another job has been put up on the farmers
in some sections of the country, which is neater
than the "hulless" oats racket. The sharpers
travel around from house to house and get the un-
suspecting ones to sign pledges not to destroy the
song birds. By and by these pledges turn up
with promissory note written above the sigma
ture of the unsuspecting farmer. Again-dont
| sign anything for a stranger. If he won't take
| your word, fire him out.
The sale of the fine Jersey dairy stock of
| Mr.. Joshua r. Green, on the Little Gunpowder,
| now being advertised in The UNION, takes place
| Thursday of next week, 3lst inst. For some time
Mr.. Green has been selling annually between six
| and seven thousand pounds of gilt edged butter
| to regular customers in the city at top market
| prices, each cow netting him over 500 year.
| Mr.. Green lives about II miles from Baltimore and
the entire product of his dairy has been hauled to
| the city in market wagon.
The merchants of Old Town, who ship a
great deal of freight by the Maryland Central
road, are very indignant because the City Council
has indefinitely postponed the ordinance for the
paving of the Falls road from Maryland avenue
bridge to the depot of the Maryland Central.
The road has been in horrible condition for some
time and it is not an unusual sight to see three or
four teams stalled at time There is talk Of
having the city indicted for maintaining nuis-
ance in connection with this thoroughfare.
A Big Industry for Baltimore County
parties have purchased 81 900 acres ofand at Spar
rows Point, on the Patapsco, near Baltimore in
Guiding the Holly Grove Tvoli resort l62 acres
and that they contemplate the starting of large
steel works industry there. The first reports that
Northern Central or Pennsylvania Railroad people
were negotiating for the purchase were erroneous.
The owners of the Tivoli property have sold to
the parties for cash. and it is said that options on
| adjacent properties to make up the 1000 acres
have been accepted, and the transaction closed at
| about $50 to $50 acre. The Pennsylvania
Steel Works, persons connected with them,
have been named in connection with the project,
which, if carried through, will give an advanta-
| peous addition to the manufacturing interests of